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– Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is “Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak out”. Dr. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA). His website is www.ramzybaroud.net

The Limits of Israeli Intelligence: Does Israel Have a Yahya Sinwar Problem?

May 11, 2022

Like typical analyses offered by western intelligences when trying to assess risks or understand major political phenomena in the Middle East, Israeli intelligence is equally short-sighted. It insists on analyzing the attitudes and body language […]

Rewriting UNRWA: The US-Israeli Plan to Cancel out the Palestinian Right of Return

May 4, 2022

Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end. UNRWA’s mission, which has been in effect since 1949, has done more […]

Cost of the Ukraine War Felt in Africa, Global South

May 1, 2022

While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions around the world. Even when these […]

‘Temporal and Spatial’ Division: Why Israel’s Endgame at Al-Aqsa Mosque Will Fail

April 27, 2022

Starting on April 15, the Israeli occupation army and police raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem on a daily basis. Under the pretense of providing protection to provocative ‘visits’ by thousands of illegal Israeli […]

For Palestinians, Food Insecurity is Now an Existential Threat

April 20, 2022

A friend, a young journalist in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged Strip have skyrocketed in recent weeks and that many already impoverished families are struggling to put food […]

Palestine’s Widening Geography of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat the Palestinians

April 13, 2022

There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. By doing […]

From Korea to Libya: On the Future of Ukraine and NATO’s Neverending Wars

April 8, 2022

Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West’s response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across the world, especially in the Middle […]

Can Israel Exist without America: Numbers Speaks of a Changing Reality

April 6, 2022

When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on March 29 reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should an agreement be struck, Israel appeared […]

Is Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict a Platform for Racism and Rewriting History

April 4, 2022

When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behavior to that of Daesh. In […]

Gaza’s Forthcoming Crisis Might Be Worse than Anything We Have Ever Seen

March 30, 2022

“The water is back,” one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was made, my whole family would start running in […]

The Billion Dollar Deal that Made Google and Amazon Partners in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine

March 23, 2022

“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This text was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military. […]

New Great Game: Can Venezuela Negotiate an End to US Deadly Sanctions?

March 22, 2022

How the tables have turned. A high-level US delegation visited Venezuela on March 5, hoping to repair economic ties with Caracas. Venezuela, one of the world’s poorest countries partly due to US-Western sanctions is, for […]

Weathering the Global Storm: Why Neutrality is Not an Option for Palestinians

March 16, 2022

A new global geopolitical game is in formation, and the Middle East, as is often the case, will be directly impacted by it in terms of possible new alliances and resulting power paradigms. While it […]

Politics and Sports Do Mix: On FIFA’s Hypocrisy in Palestine and the Need to Isolate Apartheid Israel

March 9, 2022

Israel’s war on Palestinian sports is as old as the Israeli state itself.  For Palestinians, sport is a critical aspect of their popular culture, and since Palestinian culture itself is a target for the ongoing […]

French Withdrawal from Mali Will Redraw the Political Map of West Africa

March 8, 2022

Finally, France will be leaving Mali, nearly a decade after the original military intervention in 2013. The repercussions of this decision will hardly be confined to this West African nation, but will likely spread to […]

On Palestine’s Everyday Victories: Why Israel is No Longer the Exception

March 2, 2022

Can Israel be pressured? Or is Tel Aviv the only exception to the global political order in which every country, big or small, is subjected to pressures and subsequent change in attitude and behavior? Several […]

The Next Step in Palestine’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle is the Most Difficult

February 23, 2022

When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11, 1991, my family, friends and neighbors followed the event with keen interest as they gathered in the living room of my old […]

Biden’s Real Challenge is Not Russia or China, but Poverty in America

February 19, 2022

Mainstream US media continues to celebrate the supposed strength of the US economy. Almost daily, headlines speak of hopeful numbers, sustainable growth, positive trends and constant gains. The reality on the ground, however, tells of […]

Doing Business with Apartheid: Why Africa Must Reject Israeli Colonialism

February 16, 2022

The current split in the African Union (AU) over Israel’s Observer membership status is emblematic of a larger conflict that could potentially split the African continent’s largest political institutions. Africa is currently facing one of […]

‘The Blood in the Barrel’: Decades of Israeli Propaganda are Faltering

February 9, 2022

A succession of events in recent weeks all points to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israel’s painstaking efforts aimed at hiding the truth about its origins and its current racially-driven apartheid regime […]

Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase

February 7, 2022

As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba. Washington’s response, […]

Instead of Freeing Palestinian Prisoners, New Scheme Aims at Punishing Their Families

February 3, 2022

A scheme is underway to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners. According to Israeli media, the Biden Administration has requested that the PA entirely overhaul […]

Morality Cannot Be Divided: How Netanyahu’s Corruption has Exposed Israel’s ‘Democracy’

January 28, 2022

Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his prosecutors are reportedly finalizing the details of a plea deal that would practically water down, shelve, or drop altogether all three major corruption cases that have led […]

Israel’s Hasbara in Sheikh Jarrah: On Gilad Erdan’s ‘Terrorist’ Rock and Faulty Logic

January 26, 2022

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, is leading his country’s anti-Palestinian propaganda, this time engaging in pre-emptive hasbara in anticipation of a Palestinian response to the ongoing evictions in the East Jerusalem neighborhood […]

How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ Plans to Control All Palestinian Content Online

January 22, 2022

It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control and suppress online content. This was […]

In South Africa as in Palestine: Why We Must Protect the Legacy of Desmond Tutu

January 18, 2022

Long before intersectionality became a prevailing concept which helped delineate the relationship between various marginalized and oppressed groups, late South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it all in a few words and in a most […]

The Myth of Apolitical China: Why the West Refuses to Accept China’s Superpower Status

January 16, 2022

An article by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times last July is a prime example of  western intelligentsia’s limited understanding of China’s unhindered rise as a superpower. “Becoming a superpower is a complicated business. It […]

The Real ‘Doomsday Scenario’: How Palestinian Hunger Striker, Abu Hawash Forced Israeli Concession

January 12, 2022

As soon as media reports emerged regarding a deal between Palestinian prisoner, Hisham Abu Hawash and the Israeli prison authorities, Israeli extremists, led by Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir, angrily raided the Assaf Harofeh Hospital where […]

The World ‘Hanging by a Thread’: Stories to Follow in 2022

January 10, 2022

Though 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues from the previous year that will linger for a bit, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news in 2022 as well. […]

As Israel Plots Endgame in Occupied Golan, Bennett Must Remember Lessons of the Past

January 5, 2022

With Syria still embroiled in its own war, Israel has been actively rewriting the rule book regarding its conduct in this Arab country. Gone are the days of a potential return of the illegally occupied […]

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